Life Is Too Short For Mean Anxieties.

It Has Been Said That True Religion Will Make A Man A More Thorough Gentleman Than All The Courts In Europe. And It Is True That You May See Simple Laboring Men As Thorough Gentlemen As Any Duke, Simply Because They Have Learned To Fear God; And, Fearing Him, To Restrain Themselves, Which Is The Very Root And Essence Of All Good Breeding.

Do Not Fancy, As Too Many Do, That Thou Canst Praise God By Singing Hymns To Him In Church Once A Week, And Disobeying Him All The Week Long. He Asks Of Thee Works As Well As Words; And More, He Asks Of Thee Works First And Words After.

Have Charity; Have Patience; Have Mercy. Never Bring A Human Being, However Silly, Ignorant, Or Weak--above All, Any Little Child--to Shame And Confusion Of Face. Never By Petulance, By Suspicion, By Ridicule, Even By Selfish And Silly Haste--never, Above All, By Indulging In The Devilish Pleasure Of A Sneer--crush What Is Finest And Rouse Up What Is Coarsest In The Heart Of Any Fellow-creature.

I Hope That My Children, At Least, If Not I Myself, Will See The Day When Ignorance Of The Primary Laws And Facts Of Science Will Be Looked Upon As A Defect Only Second To Ignorance Of The Primary Laws Of Religion And Morality.

We Have Used The Bible As If It Was A Mere Special Constable's Handbook — An Opium-dose For Keeping Beasts Of Burden Patient While They Were Being Overloaded — A Mere Book To Keep The Poor In Order.